Production of Isovaleric Acid from Leucine by Bacteroides ruminicola
- 31 December 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Dairy Science Association in Journal of Dairy Science
- Vol. 44 (1), 173-174
- https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(61)89709-9
Abstract
Using an assay procedure involving Ruminococcus albus, strain 7, it was shown that washed suspensions B. ruminicola subsp. brevis, strain 118B, an organism known to function in the rumen, produced a branched-chained volatile acid, essential for certain ruminal cellulolytic bacteria, from acid-hydrolysed casein. The washed suspensions produced radioactive valeric acid, presumably isovaleric acid, from DL-2C14 leucine.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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